| Syllabus | Professor Mark Amerika
email: Mark.Amerika@Colorado.Edu www: www.markamerika.com |
| Remix Yourself | |
| What's Your Story? | Seminar Introduction
Introductions The Implications of Hypertext Digital Narrative Net Art The Exhibition Context The Contemporary Remixologist
The secret life of data as source material. The artist as remixologist (one who studies and performs ["makes"] art out of the secret life of data. Our first in-class excerise will be all about writing and overwriting and rewriting. Is it still you? Was it ever really you? Go here. Then here. Now remix this page for your own artist statement.
Digital Narratives: Telling It Like It Is? Read Shelley Jackson's popular hypertext MY BODY and see how she confuses [de-familiarizes] autobiographical discourse into something "fictional." Also notice how she mixes hyperTEXT with illustration and, on the opening page, a sound-loop. As with much web art work, here we find textuality and narrative becoming privileged. Another example of this kind of hypertextual narrative is Adrienne Eisen's Six Sex Scenes. For examples of "pseudo-autobiography" in Flash, see Donna Leischman's "littleredridinghood", Eric Loyer's "Marrow Monkey", "Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries", or the blood and guts of Qrime. Narrative net art meets social hactivism in Mongrel's "Uncomfortable Proximity" and the motion graphic VJ narrative "FILMTEXT" suggests a future for remixology. The morphing quicktime cinema of Peter Horvath is worth a look at too. The blurring of still and moving images to capture flickering moments in the daily stories of anonymous figures in the urban environment can be found at Stop Motion Studies. Then there's virtual identity and love, at a Distance -- or national identity metamorphosizing in the networked enviironment into something like Real Life 2.0. Interviews with some of the artists are available at the "Histories of Internet Art" website created by students in FINE 4316/5316. For an interview with Jackson, go here. For more online narratives, go here.
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| Final Assignment |
Pseudo-Autobiographical Narrative Space: Using the Web As A Real Fictitious Medium Now that you have had a chance to begin exploring the web as an artist's development tool, it's time to expand the story. Create a digital narrative that does the following:
It is due after lunch on Friday so this means you should probably get started on this yesterday! Here are some excellent sites for your research purposes:
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